#fai correction

[clinically-chronically]

Hip surgery is officially 1 week away from today. 😶

[clinically-chronically]

Ehlers danlos struggles

With Ehlers danlos syndrome, it complicates everything.

I saw my hip specialist yesterday and boy are my hips a hot mess. With the hip dysplasia and FAI as well as a torn labrum, plus Ehlers danlos syndrome makes things far more complicated. I will be getting 3D CT scans done on both hips so that we can better figure out what surgery would be the best option for me. Weather that be fixing the FAI and torn labrum, or fixing the Hip dysplasia. Or even doing both at once. That's where we are at right now with that.

Today I saw Rheumatology and cardiology. Rheumatology didn't end up being too much. With EDS, you can't fix your Gene's. But we may change up some of my medications to help with my chronic pain and I was referred over to a pain specialist. We also may be doing lab work to rule out any other autoimmune components.

Cardiology we upped my blood pressure medication to its max dose to see what it will fix. If it's still not enough for me then we will be doing 500ml of saline or lactated ringers every single day to help my dysautonomia.

Here's hoping we can get things settled.

[clinically-chronically]

New hips at the age of 22????

Yes.

Well, not exactly in a way that you're thinking of it. I did not have a total hip replacement. But, I did need some work done to my hip. Well both hips to be exact but I'll get into that here in a moment.

I had hip surgery in my left hip for FAI cam-typw hip inpingement with a torn labrum. Now what this means is that the top of my femur bone was malformed. It wasn't completely round and it was more or less flat on one side. This caused my labrum to be torn because it kept rubbing and grinding against it. It also caused some tearing in my cartilage.

What they did in my surgery was shave and reshape my femur bone, repair the labrum tear and cleaned up the cartilage and arthritis in my hip joint. It was a 2.5-3 hour surgery.

I am now about 2.5 weeks post op. And I'm doing really well. I had my first post op follow up with my hip surgeon and I got the stitches out. Which by the way, did not hurt. And I got to see the oddly interesting pictures of my hip. Which looked kinda gross but also was intriguing.

I'm still on crutches at 50% weight bearing and will be on crutches for about 3-4 more weeks. He wants to make sure that my soft tissue heals properly due to my Classical Ehlers-Danlos. Which was a good call. Also, once I am completely off crutches I can also have the brace off as well. Which will be kind of nice.

But honestly I'm pleased with how well this has gone. I've noticed a difference already with my left hip compared to my right hip. Once I heal from this surgery we will be doing the same procedure to my right hip.

I'm honestly kind of worried for my right hip that due to me putting most of my weight on it and using it a lot more that it will be worse than my left. But I guess we will just have to see!

But, all in all this was definitely a good choice for me to make. I'm glad that I made the decision otherwise my hips will be a lot more worse off than what they already are.